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"U. Va. Bans Signs at Sporting Events CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) -- The University of Virginia is enacting a new policy that bans all signs at its athletic events. The Charlottesville school notified students of the policy on Tuesday. Athletics department officials say the change is intended to support and promote sportsmanship in a positive game-day environment. It applies to football and basketball games, as well as all other athletics events. The new policy comes roughly a year after student David Becker was threatened with ejection from Scott Stadium during a football game for a sign that read "Fire Groh." Becker's homemade sign reflected a view of head football coach Al Groh. Becker was then informed that the sign violated a policy banning signs that contained derogatory comments or profanity, or impeded another guest's view of the field or cover any stadium signage."

FREEDOM OF SPEECH PC RAWR RAWR RAWR

honestly this is redunkulous

if there was ever a time for the ACLU to show up, this would be warranted

p.s. this is why we can't have nice things

8/20/2008 5:49:41 PM

What would thomas jefferson do

8/20/2008 5:52:10 PM

more like

UV, eh?


(signs can block sun and UV radiation)



feels like everyone around is more of a VT fan anyway

[Edited on August 20, 2008 at 5:53 PM. Reason : ]

8/20/2008 5:53:20 PM

there's a punchline to that that i'm not gonna give

[Edited on August 20, 2008 at 5:53 PM. Reason : ^^]

8/20/2008 5:53:35 PM

no more







[Edited on August 20, 2008 at 5:55 PM. Reason : ]

8/20/2008 5:55:03 PM

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"The new policy comes roughly a year after student David Becker was threatened with ejection from Scott Stadium during a football game for a sign that read "Fire Groh." Becker's homemade sign reflected a view of head football coach Al Groh."

thanks for explaining this, AP

8/20/2008 5:57:32 PM

i searched "UVA STUDENTS FOOTBALL" in google and this is what popped up





ban them

8/20/2008 6:01:32 PM

nice diction yo

8/20/2008 6:02:04 PM

Sucks for us watching games.

But honestly I would hate to be the guy behind some dude with a massive sign.

It's not happened to me yet.

8/20/2008 6:04:19 PM

I had a feeling this was going to happen and I think more schools will follow.

See New Mexico State and Oregon last year

8/20/2008 6:13:58 PM

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"What would thomas jefferson do"

go off and make a black baby

8/20/2008 6:18:17 PM

AND THERE'S THE PUNCHLINE

8/20/2008 7:24:42 PM

we were walkin to a bar and this black homeless guy claimed to be a descendent of TJ lol

8/20/2008 7:33:37 PM

This sounds like something UNC would do because only rednecks make signs at sporting events

8/21/2008 3:49:39 PM

whats that? you're excited that you just scored a touchdown? too bad, 15 yard penalty

8/21/2008 4:17:49 PM

I can confirm UVA students do dress like that to go to football games.

8/21/2008 4:30:29 PM

Now I don't get to see clever ESPN acronyms

8/21/2008 8:04:22 PM

they are pretty much the douchebaggiest football fans I've ever seen. Its like UNC x 10 up there.

8/21/2008 9:04:06 PM

but they win games

UNC doesnt do that

so its different

8/21/2008 11:01:58 PM

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"Sucks for us watching games. But honestly I would hate to be the guy behind some dude with a massive sign. It's not happened to me yet."

This has happened to me numerous times, and it sucks hole.

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"I can confirm UVA students do dress like that to go to football games."

A shit ton of kids at Wake were dressed like that when I went to see them play Army last year.

8/22/2008 1:11:07 AM

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"Now I don't get to see clever ESPN acronyms "

meh, they're hardly ever acronyms anymore

as long as the letter is somewhere in the word, it's fair game

dumb as hell

8/22/2008 1:18:04 AM

"positive game-day environment"

"It's all in a circle... up and down"

8/22/2008 1:19:21 AM

8/22/2008 10:13:19 AM

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3622586

10/3/2008 10:38:31 AM

virginia pwnt

10/3/2008 2:48:51 PM

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"It comes just days after students reportedly threatened to wear blue instead of orange to Saturday's home game against Maryland as a sign of protest."

wat?

10/3/2008 3:24:26 PM

lolz

10/3/2008 5:10:37 PM

I had mine removed one time on the way into the game

it was the OFF and the the fence thing


but on the back I had painted FIRE CHUCK


they told me that signs werent allowed anywhere in CF and they took it, ripped it up and threw it away

10/3/2008 5:12:31 PM